>>137392>We're all outdoor people, we didn't evolve to live the way we do.Actually, that's not true. We did evolve to use tools (lack of any built-in weapons on our body), to live with other humans (social instincts, ability to use language), to rely on clothing and houses for protection from the elements (fair-skinned people at least need clothing to avoid getting sunburned, no body fur or insulating blubber to survive the climates we live in), and to eat cooked food (small jaws with small, compressed teeth; high caloric and protein requirements). There's a lot of evidence to indicate that we're still evolving in these circumstances called civilization - we didn't just stop when we left Africa as hunter-gatherers.
Granola-naturalists like to equate everything with a pre-human-contact forest or savanna, but the facts are not on your side. And before you bring up long-distance running as proof that humans have the built-in ability to catch game without tools by tiring it out, and killing it when it collapses of exhaustion, have you ever tried to chase after a deer or some large game animal and ever actually been able to follow it for more than about a quarter mile without relying on tracks? If we could just chase all our food to exhaustion, trust me, the bow and arrow would never have been invented.
